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The wood apple (Feronia limonia), called as elephant apple, has several medicinal properties. It is antiscorbic (prevent scurvy), a disease caused by lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). It is an antidote for poison and also helps in curing sore throat. The objective of the study was to incorporate medicinal properties of wood apple in fruit bar, a well accepted food product. The fruit bar was prepared by using different proportions of wood apple and mango. Fruit bars were analyzed for chemical composition at monthly interval of one month storage at room temperature (16-35°C). Increasing trend in carbohydrate, acidity, TSS and reducing sugar was observed where as decrease in ascorbic acid, pH and total sugar was noted throughout the storage period. Organoleptic qualities of wood apple mango blended bar (50:50) were evaluated in comparison with control sample (wood apple fruit bar). The results on sensory parameters indicated that blended bar was superior in most of the quality attributes. Storage upto six months could be possible with wood apple mango...
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Clinical pharmacists are integral part of patient healthcare team. They tend to serve as key element in patient care provide quality of care to reduce ADR (adverse drug reactions),improve patient compliance, effective drug cost and make role of pharmacist evident in healthcare sector and society. For the purpose of evaluating patient outcome failure from treatment, a retrospective study conducted where clinical pharmacist were directed to pay their role in evaluating mechanism behind failure of treatment. About 300 patients from different healthcare sector were included particularly of with chronic illness and those reported with poor compliance. They disclose many horrible facts and identify mechanism in poor response of therapy. By special counseling in separate area by clinical pharmacist patient reveals many fact in failure about 31% due to improper counseling, 61% undesirable taste, 5% ADR,41% due to psychological burden of long treatment and only 11% were receiving psychological treatment with 59% were not satisfied with physician response. After introduction of clinical pharmacist, there is a remarkable improvement in outcome of...
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The non-invasive adhesive tape stripping technique was used to evaluate dermato-pharmacokinetics of nanometric titanium dioxide in tropical albinistic skin. Ten sequential strippings were conducted on exposure sites on the forehead, inner and upper forearms of three oculocutaneous albinism individuals 26+/- 4 years old, 15 minutes post dosing of 6.75mg/cm2 of a 5% titanium dioxide cream specifically designed to retard actinic damage in albinistic persons. The strips were subsequently acid treated and analyzed for titanium content by ICP-AES. All the applied titanium was recovered from the surface and upper layers of the stratum corneum of all participants from all body sites. The average recovery of titanium was 98.50± 0.66%.No titanium was detected in strips 9 and 10 from all sites. On the inner forearm, on average 67.92± 0.95% titanium was localized on the surface (strip1and the cotton swab), 29.41± 0.60%was recovered in the upper stratum corneum strips 2-5. The small remainder was recovered from the lower strippings. On the upper forearms the average recoveries were 61.86± 0.72% Ti (surface), 34.29±...
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The effects of AM fungi on Salvia miltiorrhiza under different selenium levels was researched using pot technology. The results showed that inoculation of AM fungi significantly increased the plant height, root length, each part weight, chlorophyll, protein and selenium content of Salvia miltiorrhiza under the same selenium level, in addition, MDA and proline contents decreased significantly. It can be seen that AM fungi could promote the growth of Salvia miltiorrhiza, enhance disease resistance and improve the uptake of nutrient elements. The contents of tanshinone IIA in inoculated plants were higher than non inoculated plants. While the selenium concentration was 40μg.ml-1, the content of tanshinone IIA in inoculated plants was highest, that was 0.272%. The growth of Salvia miltiorrhiza, soluble sugar, MDA and the content of tanshinone IIA increased firstly and then decreased, but the contents of inoculated plants were higher than non inoculated plants, they reached the maximum at Se1(20μg.ml-1)~Se2(40 μg.ml-1). From that proper concentration was cooperated with AM fungi on improving the growth and accumulating of medicinal components....
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Background: Periodontal disease is one of the two main and most prevalent oral diseases all over the world. Treatment strategies are diverse. To date, scaling and root planing (SRP) is still the gold standard non-surgical therapy for periodontitis. Systemically administered antibiotics can be used as an adjunct to SRP to improve the treatment outcome of periodontitis. Purpose: To compare clinical outcome of systemically administered doxycycline versus combination of amoxicillin and metronidazole as an adjunct to SRP in the management of chronic periodontitis patients. Methods: This study was conducted on forty-two moderate to severe generalized chronic periodontitis patients who received non-surgical periodontal therapy. Following SRP, patients were randomly allocated to one of the following groups; group (I) received Doxycycline (loading dose 200 mg and maintenance dose 100 mg/day) for fifteen days, group (II) received a combination therapy of amoxicillin and metronidazole (750 mg/day) for eight days and group III (control group) which was treated by SRP without administration of systemic antibiotic therapy. The periodontal parameters; Plaque index (PI), Gingival index...
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